NEWS

CEMS Facebook Page

October 24, 2016

You can now follow our activities and news on the following Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/ceucems/?fref=ts

Academic Calendar 2016/2017

October 24, 2016

Please find our academic calendar attached!

BUILDING, BENDING AND BREAKING BOUNDARIES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WORLD

October 24, 2016

BUILDING, BENDING, AND BREAKING BOUNDARIES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WORLD

Fifth CEMS International Graduate Conference

Budapest, 1-3 June, 2017

Dan Knox to receive the award for the best MA thesis in SEMS

June 28, 2016

Dan Knox, 1-year MA at the Department of Medieval Studies, receives the CEMS award for the best MA thesis in the Specialization in Eastern Mediterranean Studies. Congratulations!

Specialization in Eastern Mediterranean Studies approved by the New York State Department of Education

June 28, 2016

CEMS is happy to announce that the New York State Department of Education approved the Specialization in Eastern Mediterranean Studies, which had been approved by the CEU-senate last year in April. All of our MA students who enroll in the specialization will be awarded the Advanced Certificate in EMS, starting from this academic year.

CEMS Best MA Thesis Award

May 25, 2016
We are delighted to announce that CEMS, funded by the Ottoconfession Project, will grant a 250 EUR award at the end of the current academic year for the best MA thesis among those written by students who have signed up for the Eastern Mediterranean Studies Specialization. 

CEMS will host two 2-Year Postdoctoral Fellows in Early Modern Armenian and Greek Orthodox Religious History starting September 2016

January 27, 2016

CEMS is proud to announce that it is receiving applications for two 2-Year Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellowship in early modern Armenian and Greek Orthodox religious history!

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CEMS senior member Professor Tijana Krstic wins an ERC Consolidator grant for the project entitled "The Fashioning of a Sunni Orthodoxy and the Entangled Histories of Confession-Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-17th Century" (OTTOCONFESSION)

August 12, 2015

The project will explore how and why the Ottoman Empire evolved from a fourteenth-century polity where “confessional ambiguity” between Sunnism and Shiism prevailed, into an Islamic state concerned with defining and enforcing a “Sunni orthodoxy” by the early sixteenth century.

CEMS Graduate Conference 2015

August 4, 2015

CEMS is happy to announce that Georgina White from Princeton University has been awarded with CEMS's 2 year Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellowship in Classical Studies with a focus on Ancient Political Thought.

April 13, 2015

Gina is currently in the process of completing her PhD in the Classics Department at Princeton University, where she has been working on a dissertation on the translation of Greek in Cicero's philosophical works. A member of Princeton's Classical Philosophy Program, but with a background in classical literature and history, she is interested in how Greek philosophy enters the Roman world, and the philosophical and political implications of translating Greek thought into the Latin language.